Our Rock in a Shaken World
by Michaelyn Hein Our summer vacation neared its end; its lazy days rounded the bend to their final lap as they prepared to pass the baton to fall. With the looming need to turn the calendar to September, my mind naturally followed the next step: not to chillier days and falling leaves, but the start […]
Beware of the Tepidity of “Clipboard Catholicism”
by Barb Ernster – The Catholic Church has a rich history of wonderful devotions that have developed and evolved over the years, many going back centuries. Devotions, novenas and prayers to Our Lady and the saints have accumulated. Unsurprisingly, most have promises attached. Sometimes, as Catholics, we can get weary of sorting through all […]
A Christmas to Remember
Just one year after St. Pope John Paul II’s consecration of the whole world, including Russia, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25, 1984, the new Soviet Union president and Communist Party leader Mikhail Gorbachev began instituting democratic reforms in the spring of 1985 that he later acknowledged were “historically correct.” In 1991, […]
Am I my brother’s keeper?
By David M. Carollo – When God asked Cain where his brother Abel was, he responded: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Knowing that he had murdered him, motivated by jealousy, God allowed him to contemplate his deed. Cain knew that his action was wrong, but more profoundly, he knew that this act had ramifications far […]
A Mother’s Prayer, A Miraculous Healing
by Patrick Sabat In one of our tours with the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, we visited St. Anthony of Padua Parish and international headquarters of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, in Robstown, Texas. It was here that we learned the beautiful story from Mary Ramon, […]
The Rosary is a ‘Weapon’ of Love
by David M. Carollo – I am dismayed at the assertion in the article written in ‘The Atlantic’ by Daniel Panneton, that devout Catholics use the rosary as a weapon of hate. There is no greater act of love that exists beyond the Mass than the recitation of the Rosary. The 20 decades follow the […]
Sister Lucia Formulated the Blue Army Pledge
by Barb Ernster – The Blue Army Pledge was formulated with the help of Sister Lucia on August 12, 1946. Our co-founder, John Haffert had been given permission by the Bishop of Fatima, Jose Alves Correia da Silva, to come to Portugal and interview Lucia, who was then a Dorothean Sister in Porto. Mr. Haffert […]
St. Dominic’s Legacy of Preachers and the Holy Rosary
By Rev. Matthew R. Mauriello One of the Church’s greatest saints, St. Dominic Guzman, was born in Calaruega, Spain, on Aug. 8, 1170. His father was Felix Guzman and his mother was Blessed Jane of Aza. According to his biographer, Blessed Jordan of Saxony (1190-1237), who succeeded St. Dominic as minister general of his Order, […]
Get close to Jesus in the Eucharist
by Barb Ernster – After pondering the question of the most important part of the Fatima message, Sister Lucia stated that it was “at the beginning, at the Cabeço.” It was there that the Angel of Peace led the three little shepherds to an intense reality of the presence of God and to worship and […]
The Annihilation of the Soul
by David M. Carollo – Perhaps the most ominous prediction made by Our Lady at Fatima in 1917 was a warning that nations could be annihilated. Pictures of a nuclear holocaust dance through our heads when we think of this possibility. War in any age has disrupted society, but war in the nuclear age has […]
